In collaboration with the Butterfly Run Vancouver, BC Women's Health Foundation and Reproductive Mental Health we are sharing real stories from real women to support pregnancy loss, infant loss and infertility. Read Yvonne’s story about her struggles with infertility due to peri menopause and the pregnancy loss she experienced.

YVONNE’S STORY

At 22 I was told I was in peri menopause by an endocrinologist. I went to him because I had stomach issues and no one could figure out why I was in pain. I’m not sure how this came up from stomach issues so it was a very distressing situation. I was told I would have a 1 in 16th chance of having kids. I cried because I thought I couldn’t have kids, I cried cause I wasn’t with anyone at that time, I cried cause I was so young and confused. At 30 I met my husband and abs in full blown menopause. 5 years later we started looking into egg donation. It was very tedious and very overwhelming and stressful. I was basically in fight or flight. Finally at 37 I had our beautiful daughter on our first IVF. The following year we had 2 more IVF procedures that ended in miscarriages. My journey was over now as I had no more embryos left. I grieved and sold all my daughters baby things and started to accept that I would have no more children. So now as I write this I’ve had some developments and I feel like my body is saying let’s try one more time. So who knows!